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Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Age: 64 †
Born: 1751
Born: October 30
Died: 1816
Died: July 7
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Here 's to the maiden of bashful fifteen Here 's to the widow of fifty Here 's to the flaunting, extravagant queen, And here 's to the housewife that 's thrifty! Let the toast pass Drink to the lass I 'll warrant she 'll prove an excuse for the glass.
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An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance!
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If Parliament were to consider the sporting with reputation of as much importance as sporting on manors, and pass an act for the preservation of fame as well as game, there are many who would thank them for the bill.
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A progeny of learning.
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There needs no small degree of address to gain the reputation of benevolence without incurring the expense.
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Give them a corrupt House of Lords, give them a venal House of Commons, give they a tyrannical Prince, give them a truckling court, and let me have but an unfettered press. I will defy them to encroach a hair's breadth upon the liberties of England.
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Fame, the sovereign deity of proud ambition.
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A bumper of good liquor Will end a contest quicker Than justice, judge or vicar.
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I leave my character behind me.
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Through all the drama - whether damned or not - Love gilds the scene, and women guide the plot.
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A fluent tongue is the only thing a mother don't like her daughter to resemble her in.
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Steal! to be sure they may and, egad, serve your best thoughts as gypsies do stolen children,-disfigure them to make 'em pass for their own.
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The quarrel is a very pretty quarrel as it stands - we should only spoil it by trying to explain it.
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The throne we honour is the people's choice.
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It is not my interest to pay the principal, nor my principle to pay the interest.
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The silver ore of pure charity is an expensive article in the catalogue of a man's good qualities.
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